The Earth-Moon Roche limit is 18,470 kilometers, about one twentieth the distance from the Earth to the Moon. But we don’t just want one ring.

followed by a close encounter with a large asteroid passing through the Earth's Roche limit, which then created a ring of ...

The Roche Limit is essentially a defined as a circular radius around a gravitational body whereby the exerted tidal forces upon an object will defeat the object’s ... closer to the Earth, ...

The Roche limit was created to study Saturn’s rings, but it’s now useful in understanding the thousands of exoplanets being discovered by space telescopes. Skip to content.

I MUST thank your correspondent G. R. for correcting my carelessness in giving Roche's limit round the sun as about a tenth of the earth's distance, instead of about a ninetieth as it really is.

Image's 'Roche Limit': Even when writing of space, writer Michael Moreci focuses on inescapable gravity of the human condition. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

The dwarf planet Quaoar sports a ring that lies outside the orb’s Roche limit, an invisible line beyond which rings aren’t thought to be stable, Lisa Grossman reported in “This dwarf planet ...

This is known as the Roche limit. Fortunately for the Earth's Moon, this limit is just under 10,000km, and the satellite itself is nearly 385,000km away.